city across the country. the second problem is they reduce individual freedom. obamacare is a great example of this. with all that massive spending power obamacare came all the rules and regulations that are reducing freedom for businesses and individuals. you can take any of my of the programs farm subsidies are a good example. the farmers are happy to take the $20 billion a year they receive but there are rules attached to that. individual farmers take the money but the federal government tells them what to plan, how many acres they can plant and prescribes other rules for them to follow. with more federal spending comes less individual freedom. third, many individual spending programs distort the economy, federal housing subsidies helped to create the housing bubble which lead to the recent recession. programs pushes up unemployment. number four many programs are job giveaways, farm subsidies are a good example. frankly, we take $20 billion a year from hard-working taxpayers and give them to high-income fa